Review on Zyxel 24 Gigabit Managed Rackmount GS1900 24E by David Norwood

This seems to be a really reliable router, but a few weeks after I took it over, I started having strange problems. I've been getting some weird and random results with devices on the network not connecting properly. There were all sorts of DHCP errors after running some network analysis tools, but they were really random and would go away and then come back, which is very strange. Mind you, I had a fairly stable network before replacing this master switch, I was immediately skeptical of this switch as it's the new kid on the block. I logged into the switch with the IP address I had assigned in my router's DHCP settings with no response. But the switch was running and traffic was going through it, so it must be listening on an address. After some research it was listening on 192.168.1.1, which is also my router's address (which runs a DHCP server). This is due to random DHCP errors. But why was the switch running on 192.168.1.1? I didn't set it that way. Also, he lost my admin password, what's the point? A little more research: the radio button configuration is short-lived unless you click the save button, yes, the button with the download icon (perfect icon, right?), clicking it saves your changes . If you don't click this button, all changes will remain until your switch is unplugged. At this point it loses its configuration. This is starting to make more sense, but wait, something doesn't add up, shouldn't it just be standard DHCP and have the router's DHCP server give it the assigned IP I gave it? Well, this conundrum can be explained by some of the power outages I've had. When power is restored the switch boots faster than the router because the switch never had a configuration saved, it outputs factory defaults and looks for a DHCP server, can't find it and takes 192.168.1.1. Moral of the story, find the save button and try to remember to click it, there is a download icon next to it. No, you do not download a settings file, you simply store the settings in the router's permanent storage. I think this also explains some of the issues in some of the negative reviews. This Save button is counterintuitive and 192.168.1.1 is probably not a good factory default. I also set a static IP address in the switch configuration (and clicked the save button) so I don't have this race condition with the DHCP server again.